claude-mem-lite: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-mem-lite CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from sdsrss/claude-mem-lite. It costs 5,307 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Claude Code that explain the claude-mem-lite memory system, its structure, health checks, and where new code belongs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Maintaining claude-mem-lite, running its tests, lint checks, benchmarks, and memory-quality comparisons.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent a consistent guide to the project, reducing confusion about architecture, commands, tests, and code placement.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is sdsrss/claude-mem-lite's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-mem-lite itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-mem-lite configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sdsrss/claude-mem-lite. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sdsrss/claude-mem-lite/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sdsrss/claude-mem-lite

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 5,307 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.05307 $0.05307
Opus 5.5 $0.02123 $0.02123
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01061 $0.01061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00531 $0.00531

Measured today against content hash e9ec65ad66b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-mem-lite CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Lightweight persistent memory for Claude Code. MCP server + hooks plugin.

  • Version: 6.30.5 — this exact string is a release guard. tests/install-e2e.test.mjs asserts CLAUDE.md contains **Version**: <v> matching package.json, plugin.json and marketplace.json. Do not reformat this line.
  • Runtime: Node >=22 (20 dropped in v4.0.0), ESM · npm · better-sqlite3 + FTS5

Capped at 20 KB: RULES ONLY. Each rule was expensive to establish and several shipped as a WRONG draft first, so these one-liners are TRIGGERS, not the argument. The evidence is verbatim in the tracked appendix a fresh clone gets — docs/measurement/findings.md (invariants, doctrine, calibers), baselines.md, rulers.md, docs/audit*/. Read it before retrieval, measurement, release, migration or schema work.

Commands

Task Command
Setup · tests npm install · npx vitest run · one file npx vitest run tests/foo.test.mjs · one case -t 'case name' · before tagging npm run test:ci-env (CI env)
Coverage npm run test:coverage (gate: statements 81 / branches 75 / functions 87 / lines 83)
Lint · shell npx eslint . · shellcheck scripts/*.sh
Format npm run format — run it twice, tests/hook-update.test.mjs needs a second pass to reach a fixed point. format:check is gated in CI and pre-commit
Dead code npm run dead-code (knip — measure from the primary working tree; the NAME SET is the evidence, not the count)
Plugin manifests npm run validate:manifests — claude plugin validate . --strict is NOT equivalent: it never checks .claude-plugin/plugin.json
Bench · multipliers npm run benchmark:gate · benchmark:multipliers:gate — run the second after touching any constant in scoring-sql.mjs or MULT_EXPR; the first is structurally blind to those
Recapture the gate baseline node benchmark/benchmark.mjs --production-hybrid > benchmark/baseline.json — expires 30 days after its own timestamp, and CI + publish pass --strict. Sampled 2026-10-07T16:18:48Z → red from 2026-11-06 16:18 UTC. The stamp lives in THREE places (baseline.json, ci.yml, this row); tests/baseline-stamp-sync.test.mjs fails if they disagree. Recapture BEFORE tagging, in its own commit — otherwise it goes red after the tag is pushed
Audit metrics npm run audit:metrics · audit:baseline · audit:selfcheck

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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claude-mem-lite CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository sdsrss/claude-mem-lite (67 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 5,307 tokens to every session, about $0.0212 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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